Thismeans,tousethepopularcatchphrase,anapartheidstate:astateinwhicheveryinstrumentofpowerisinthehandsoftheJewish-Israelimajority(some6.5millionpeople),withlimitedrightsforthe1.5millionPalestinians
with Israelicitizenship.ThePalestiniansintheoccupiedWestBank,EastJerusalemandtheGazaStrip,somefourmillion,aregrantednorightswhatsoever-neithernational,norhumannorcivil.

Some60yearslater,theseprivilegeshavegrowntogiganticdimensions.TocompensatefortheliveslostintheHolocaust,
and to increase the Jewish population,
theIsraeligovernmenthasencouragednaturalincreasebygenerouschildren’ssubsidies.SincethereligiousofallshadeshavereproducedmuchmorethananyotherIsraelis(exceptMuslimArabs),theirpartinthepopulationhasgrownbyleapsandbounds.

InhismonumentalopusontheCrusades,thelateBritishhistorianStevenRuncimanmaintainedthattheCrusaderstatedidnotcollapsebecauseofitsmilitarydefeat,butbecausetoomanyofitsinhabitantsjustpackedupandwent
back to Europe.Thoughmanyofthembelongedtothe
4thandeven
8thgenerationofcrusaders,theCrusaderstatehadlostitsattractionforthem.The
state of perpetualwarandinnerstagnationdrovethemout.Thestatecollapsedwhenmanymorewentawaythancametojoin.